Brazil and Argentina win in World Cup

Brazil and Argentina won their respective games before United States (3-1) and Japan (3-2), while Cuba defeated Iran (3-0), yesterday Monday in the men's Volleyball World Cup held in Japan, which will come from three places for the London Games.

In a match in which Brazilians and Americans made excellent serves, the first were better in the blockades.

"It is always hard when we play against United States," said the Brazilian, coach Bernardo Rezende.

"This year, we have faced five times;" This is the sixth. We learned a lot playing against them. In our serves, we wanted to be more aggressive, consistent.

This worked well. "As his coach Alan Knipe said: can we controláramos a little better", added Rezende. The argentina national team had to be used to fund to overcome the host, but his victory placed among the top four positions next to u000aBrazil, Russia and Poland.

Luciano de Cecco was named the best player of the match for his excellent performance, but also shone his teammate Facundo Conte.

For its part, Cuba won an easy victory against Iran, which prevents its sagging of the selections of head, thanks to the master class of Fernando Hernández, who gained 20 points.

At all times, the best player of the match received support from Wilfredo León, with 18 goals.

The Iran coach, the Argentine Julio Velasco, stated that his team spent too much energy in the victory before Japan. "We were wrong in the reception and attack, and I also liked the attitude of the team," said Velasco.

The current European champion, Serbia, who lost their first game against Argentina, conceded its second defeat in the Championship to fall against Poland, so it gets his ticket to compete in the Olympic Games in London.

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